For those who need something to do with their dates on unstimulating pre-football game Saturday mornings and who want to brighten their Tuesdays and Thursdays as well, these courses fit well in that fourth place on the study card.

9 A.M.--Professor Merk combines excellent delivery with an organizational knack to tell how great-grandpa began it all years ago. Making interesting use of historical society journals, History 162 gallops through the Westward movement in Harvard 1.

Meanwhile, in Sever 17, three of the History Department's best, Professor Langer and Associate Professors Wolff and Frye, tackle the Middle East since the end of the 13th century. Ottoman Empire sheiks and Balkan intrigues are subject matters for this, History 157.

In Emerson A Professor Demos holds his half course on Plato, Philosophy 102. It is a model survey course by a top Platonist and an arousing thinker.

Upstairs in 211, Assistant Professor Brown puts a character (himself) into Soc. Rel, 117a on Tuesdays and Thursdays. It's a half course on social psychology, and interesting enough to make sections bearable.

10 A.M.--Harvard Hall twins off the same upstairs landing. In 4, Associate Professor Bate criticizes the critics in a half course, English 192. It is a high point in the English Department and a classic in its field.

In Harvard 5, Professor Dunlop uses a section instead of Saturday meetings and gives an interesting course on trade unionism and collective bargaining. He's a lecturer who makes the course, Economics 181a, so alive that many even come back for 181b.

For those who are trapped over at Radcliffe at this hour or don't mind a brisk walk for weekend exercise, Associate Professor Hartz expounds liberal thought in Soc. Sci. 118, Democratic Theory and its Critics, in Longfellow Alumnae Hall. This is one of the most stimulating courses in the University; Hartz is one of the four or five best lectures around.

11 A.M.--Doc Davison is gone, but Music 1 will always be a horizon-opener. Even if you don't appreciate anything past the juke box, investigate this one, at least as an auditor. While the course is designed for the uninitiated, the self-confessed music connoisseur will learn much, too. With Professor Woodworth, piano, and recorded examples, in Paine Hall 1.

Associate Professor Wolff comes back with a half course on the History of Russia to the End of the 18th Century. It's History 155a, given in Emerson A by an excellent lecturer and a tough marker.

12 NOON--Modern art never ceases to amaze, intrigue, and astound, whether comprehensible or not. Since it's usually not, Fine Arts 170 is a good last chapter to the mystery.